When Jonathan Franzen was writing Freedom, he isolated himself by stripping down an ancient laptop, supergluing a cable into the Ethernet port, and cutting the cord with a hacksaw. Take […] ...Keep Reading »

For the past couple of years, my annual business plan has included a somewhat vague, but very important, goal: Travel to two interesting locations for stories. I shamelessly swiped the […] ...Keep Reading »

At the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki in June, I participated in a debate where I took an extreme position of taking money for any writing job. My real position […] ...Keep Reading »

Buried deep in our correspondence trail, Peter Vermij did indeed use the word “debate” when he invited me to his session, Wearing Many Hats? How to Preserve Independence (or Blurring […] ...Keep Reading »